Grand Theft Auto V due out this December?

Amazon has, briefly, advertised Grand Theft Auto V as being out this December, as an apparent list of playable vehicles from the game is found buried within the code for Max Payne 3.

Grand Theft Auto V – is it a 2012 game or not?

Online retailers are infamous for making up release dates just to encourage pre-orders, but according to website T3 for a brief period last night Amazon’s U.S. site listed Grand Theft Auto V as being released this December.

The listing currently doesn’t include any information on a release date, and officially Rockstar Games has never said when the game will be out.

After BioShock Infinite – from parent company Take-Two Interactive – was delayed from October to February though games analyst Michael Pachter did suggest that it had been moved out of the way so that Grand Theft Auto V could take its place.

That doesn’t exactly match up with a December release date, which would be later than usual for a big Christmas game, but it does add to the weight of rumours that the game will be released this year.It may be coincidence but a number of other big name games have recently been delayed from their intended pre-Christmas release dates and into 2013. That includes BioShock Infinite, as well as the Tomb Raider reboot and South Park: The Stick Of Truth .

If they were avoiding any game it was assumed they were trying to put some distance between themselves and Call Of Duty: Black Ops II – but maybe it was Grand Theft Auto V they were really scared of?In other Grand Theft Auto V news a list of what appears to be vehicle names for the game has been found within the code for Max Payne 3, which has already been released in the US.That’s not as odd as it sounds as the two games do share features, and references like this to Grand Theft Auto have been found within other Rockstar games before. The info was discovered by fans on GTAForums.com , but the full list is below: